How-To: Make a Hipslinger Bag
If you love the practicality of a fanny pack, but fear being seen in public with one slung about your waist, check out Craftster user, Rocknroar’s tutorial for creating this cool hipslinger bag.
Year: 2009
The ol’ Blue Boxing. Good times, good times.
For many of us first-gen hacker types (yes, I’m that old. Shut up.), blue boxing was our introduction to hardware hacking. It was never the illegal, rip-off aspects for me, it was proving that you could build something that exploited a vulnerability in a system; to trick it to do something it wasn’t intended to […]
Mobile Phone Mega-Market in Shenzhen
Bunnie visited the cell phone market in China… One thing that’s true about the technology markets in China is that the more you learn about it, the less you find you know. Liam Casey, “Mr. China†himself, and the CEO of PCH, came in and said exactly that our first day on the tour. I […]
The Story of the Match ~ a Great World Industry
The Story of the Match ~ a Great World Industry – Modern Mechanix 1930. Modern methods and modern machinery have trans formed the making of matches from a dangerous, disease-producing business into one of the world’s great industries. Here we have the story of how science has made the present-day match possible. HOW many matches […]
Tablecloth from Artificial Sweetener Packets
In my 3D fibers class, I made this tablecloth entirely from packets of Splenda, Equal, and Sweet’n Low.
MAKE wins – Brit Insurance Interactive Design of the Year Award
MAKE wins – Brit Insurance Interactive Design of the Year Award! Interactive:Make Magazine, USAPublished by O’ReillyJudges comments: “Make Magazine is a website and blog that has created a remarkable resource through which to explore the process of making. It is much more sophisticated than your everyday DIY website; Make Magazine presents you with unusual blueprints […]
John Park brings MAKE to Attack of the Show! – Thursday, February 26
I’m going back for more Attack of the Show! this Thursday! Tune in to see cool demos. I’m bringing some Twitchie robots (including Becky Stern’s stuffed scorpion, and my RoboFinger), the Tweet-a-Watt DIY power usage monitor, and everyone’s favorite light-sensitive analog synth kit, the Thingamakit. This episode will air on Thursday, February 26th at 7pm […]